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> PIA's business is built on trust and rasengan decided to hire Mark Karpeles as their CTO. I honestly can't think of anyone who I would trust less as a CTO tha
by tmpz22 7y ago
> PIA's business is built on trust and rasengan decided to hire Mark Karpeles as their CTO. I honestly can't think of anyone who I would trust less as a CTO than Mark Karpeles. I'm not being sarcastic, I genuinely can't think of someone as bad as Mark for a role like CTO. There's not a chance in hell that I'm going to give PIA another cent based on that alone, even ignoring the most recent Kape debacle.
That thread fails to explain why PIA hired the former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox as their CTO.
By comparison that's like hiring Rudy Giuliani as your Chief Legal Counsel, Elizebeth Holmes as your CEO, Madoff as your CFO, or Rush Limbaugh as your Chief Diversity Officer.
- netsharc 7y agoThere is no reason to trust them just because their CEO actively answers people's concerns by saying "Please don't worry, please trust us!", but I also wonder: if they were trying to be evil, why make it so obvious by putting known bad people in C-positions? Why not just have these people work as anonymous "consultants", doing all the evil under the radar?
- rasengan 7y agoI don’t want anyone to trust us. I want people to verify [1]. If you rely on trust in any system, be it VPN or other, you’re going to have a bad time. Secondly, Mark was not hired to PIA. He was hired to LTM and I posted a blog post about it to fully explain the world I am a part of. I stand behind my decisions, and no matter how many times people try to make up some conspiracy around it, I will make the same decision everytime; because I want a world that gives second chances, even if I have to build it myself. [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/12/dont-trust-verify/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/12/dont-trus... [2] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/04/why-i-hired-mt-gox-ex-ceo-mark-karpeles-as-cto-of-london-trust-media/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/04/why-i-hir...
- miked85 7y agoI read your blog, but how does one actually verify PIA logs or not for example? It seems there is always going to have to be some level of trust involved.
- rasengan 7y agoPIA never hired Mark as the CTO, and he never worked at PIA.
- tmpz22 7y agoCorrect I was wrong, Mark is the CTO of the parent company who in their own copy describes "LONDON TRUST MEDIA, Inc. is the world's first privacy and security focused accelerator and owners/operators of Private Internet Access, the world's leader in privacy online." Who doesn't trust a name like London Trust Media.